When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

See what daily exercise does for one.